Grant Recipients, 2016-2017 (II)

May 28, 2017

Recipients in the Domestic Region

(in order of date application received)

Unit: NT$

A. Research Grants

1. Shu-Wei Hsieh

Center for the Study of Chinese Religions, National Chengchi University, with Wai-Lun Tam of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)“A Proposal on a Collaborative International Research Project on the Study of Historical and Contemporary Local Taoism” Grant amount: NT$3,200,000 Grant period: 3 years

2. Shih-chang Hsin

NTHU Chinese Language Center, National Tsing Hua University, with Cornelius Kubler of Williams College (USA), et al.“US-Taiwan Exchanges in Teaching of Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language via Personal Experiences from the 1950s to the 1990s” Grant amount: NT$2,600,000 Grant period: 3 years

3. Shu-Kai Hsieh

Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, with Benjamin K. Tsou of City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), et al.“An Investigation into the 20 Year Long Cross-Straits Lexical Developments of Taiwan, Mainland China and Hong Kong and their Concomitant Underlying Cultural Changes and Causation: Based on the Big Database, LIVAC, a Pan-Chinese Synchronous Corpus” Grant amount: NT$2,500,000 Grant period: 3 years

Department of Political Science, National Chengchi University, with Jan Peter Wissink of Amsterdam University Press (The Netherlands)“Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies” Grant amount: NT$400,000 Grant period: 1 year

2. Hung Yueh Lan

Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University, with Mishio Saito of University of Tokyo Press (Japan)“Ogyu Sorai in Literary Chinese Sphere: Medicine, Military Science and Literature” Grant amount: NT$310,000 Grant period: 1 year

Recipients in the American Region

(in order of date application received)

Unit: US$

A. Research Grants

1. Shin-yi Chao

University of Rochester “Religion and Social Capital: Local Elites and Civil Society in Taiwan” Grant amount: US$22,000 Grant period: 1 year

2. Josephine Chiu-Duke

University of British Columbia (Canada) “Ying-shih Yu and His Portrait of the Chinese Intellectual Tradition” Grant amount: US$24,000 Grant period: 2 years

Nova Southeastern University “Systemic Interventions of Project MIND (Math Is Not Difficult) and Solution Focused Brief Therapy for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Their Families: A Pilot Study” Grant amount: US$14,969 Grant period: 1 year

5. Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy

Universite Laval (Canada) “Broadcasting Tibetanness: The Making of Tibetan Radio and Television in the People’s Republic of China” Grant amount: US$22,358 Grant period: 1 year

6. Jiayan Zhang

Kennesaw State University “Dike and Society in Rural China: The Jianghan Plain, 1788-1998” Grant amount: US$15,000 Grant period: 2 years

7. Pei-te Lien

University of California, Santa Barbara “Understanding the Sources and Consequences of Racial Attitudes and Opinions of Immigrant Chinese Americans” Grant amount: US$12,000 Grant period: 2 years

University of Hawai‘i, Manoa “An Investigation of the Argument and Topic Marking Systems in Formosan Language: A Case Study on Manifestations of Different Typological Features in Languages in East Asia” Grant amount: US$11,440 Grant period: 2 years

10. Xia Zhang

Portland State University “‘Parents Are Poison’: Filial Piety, New Media and Psychological Self-Help in China” Grant amount: US$15,000 Grant period: 2 years

11. Kerry Ratigan

Amherst College “Local Welfare Regimes and Perceptions of the State: A Survey of Popular Attitudes towards Social Policy in Urban China” Grant amount: US$20,000 Grant period: 1 year

Pennsylvania State University “The Global Trade in Chinese Luxury Goods from the Opening of the Oceans to the Canton System, 1670-1760” Grant amount: US$18,000 Grant period: 1 year

4. Darren Byler

University of Washington, Seattle “The Art of Life in Chinese Central Asia: Precariousness, Art and Minority Politics and the City” Grant amount: US$18,000 Grant period: 1 year

5. Jonghyuk Lee

University of California, San Diego “Incentivized Inequality: Career Prospects and Investment Allocation in China” Grant amount: US$18,000 Grant period: 1 year

6. Linh Vu

University of California, Berkeley “The Sovereignty of the War Dead: Martyrs, Memorials, and the Making of Modern China, 1912-1949” Grant amount: US$18,000 Grant period: 1 year

7. Cary Wu

University of British Columbia (Canada) “The Cultural Origins of Trust: Evidence from Two Chinese Societies” Grant amount: US$18,000 Grant period: 1 year

8. Fangyi Cheng

University of Pennsylvania “‘Barbarians’ in the Central Plain: A Comparative Perspective on the Transition of the Inner Asian People in China during Sixteen Kingdoms Period and Northern Dynasties” Grant amount: US$18,000 Grant period: 1 year

Arizona State University “Transmission of Law and Expansion of Merits: A Comparison of Daoist Ordination Ritual and Chinese Esoteric Buddhist Consecration in the Mid-Late Tang and Five Dynasties (763-960)” Grant amount: US$18,000 Grant period: 1 year

F. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad

1. Yu-yun Hsieh

City University of New York “Ang Lee’s America” Grant amount: US$18,000 Grant period: 1 year

2. Yung-chang Tung

Harvard University “Information, Mentality, and Social Interaction in the Song-Yuan Society” Grant amount: US$18,000 Grant period: 1 year

3. Chieh-ju Wu

State University of New York, Binghamton “Through the Lens of Snake Studies: The Making of Japanese Tropical Science and Colonialism in Taiwan, 1895-1945” Grant amount: US$18,000 Grant period: 1 year

4. Yen-ling Chen

University of Hawai‘i, Manoa “Proto-Ong-Be: Its Phonology and Lexicon” Grant amount: US$18,000 Grant period: 1 year

5. I-fan Wu

Cornell University “Vitality and Power: Qigong, Religious Healing, and the Production of Chinese Identities in Malaysia” Grant amount: US$18,000 Grant period: 1 year

6. Chia-hao Hsu

University of Texas, Austin “Voicing Indigeneity: ‘Voice’ and Cultural Politics of Aboriginal Song and Singing in Contemporary Taiwan” Grant amount: US$18,000 Grant period: 1 year

Texas A&M University “Environmental Policy and the Emergence of the Incineration Industry: A Case Study of Beijing, China, 1992-2012” Grant amount: US$18,000 Grant period: 1 year

9. Chia-chien Chang

University of California, Santa Barbara “Domestic Inequality, Redistributive Conflict and Strategies of War Finance -- A Historical Institutional Analysis of China in the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)” Grant amount: US$18,000 Grant period: 1 year

University of Groningen (The Netherlands) “Mapping Religious Diversity and Inclusive Practices in Modern Sichuan: A Spatial and Social Study of Communities and Networks” Grant amount: €100,000 Grant period: 3 years

University of Oxford (UK) “Muslims, Movement and the Military: Changing Governance of a Sino-Tibetan Frontier in 19th Century Gansu’” Grant amount: €15,000 Grant period: 1 year

10. Elisa Tamburo

University of London (UK) “Moving House: The Re-making of Home among the Mainlander Diaspora in Taiwan ” Grant amount: €15,000 Grant period: 1 year

11. Bibiana Crippa

Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) “Between Tradition and Modernity: The Poetry of Jin He 金和 (1818-1885)” Grant amount: €15,000 Grant period: 1 year

12. Egas Bender de Moniz Bandeira

University of Heidelberg (Germany)“Late Qing China and the Globalisation of Constitutionalism” Grant amount: €15,000 Grant period: 1 year

13. Jiani He

University of Cambridge (UK) “Empire, Nation and Language: The Linguistic Turn in Manchuria in Late Imperial China (1890-1911)” Grant amount: €15,000 Grant period: 1 year

14. Manuel Sassmann

University of Heidelberg (Germany)“The Dawn of Awakening: Argument and Exegesis in the Late Ming as Seen through the Work of the Buddhist Master Ouyi Zhixu 藕益智旭 (1599-1655)” Grant amount: €15,000 Grant period: 1 year

●Wait List

1. Guanli Zhang (# 1)

University of Oxford (UK)“Knowledge, Strategy, and Ideology: Environmental Mobilisation in Two ‘Cancer Villages’ of East China”

2. Xing Wang (# 2)

University of Oxford (UK)“Fortune and the Body: The Anthropological Study of Chinese Physiognomy in Song and Ming”

University of Tuebingen (Germany)“Challenging ‘Ming’ -- How Are Culturally Specific Notions of Fate, Choice and Agency Affected by the Economic and Political Transformations in Taiwan?”Grant amount: €21,000Grant period: 1 year

2. Monica Gines Blasi

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain)“Sino-Spanish Negotiations on Chinese Immigration to Cuba and the Philippines, 1868-1898”Grant amount: €21,000Grant period: 1 year

3. Jerome Doyon

University of London (UK)“Our Kind of Stranger: The Cooptation of Minority Cadres in Post-Mao China”Grant amount: €42,000Grant period: 2 years

4. Joseph Ciaudo

University of Heidelberg (Germany)“Mapping the Concepts of Culture in Early Twentieth-Century China: Historical Semantics and Social Mobilization”Grant amount: €21,000Grant period: 1 year

5. Shajidanmu Tuxun

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Germany)“The Taste of the Silk Road: A Research Proposal on Xinjiang/Uyghur Restaurants in China and Europe”Grant amount: €21,000Grant period: 1 year

6. Tarryn Li-min Chun

University of Oxford (UK)“Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theatre, Technology, and Media in Modern China”Grant amount: €21,000Grant period: 1 year

7. Victor Louzon

Sciences Po (France)“Mobilization, Demobilization and Remobilization in the Wartime Japanese Empire -- From Taiwan to Manchuria (1937-1949) ”Grant amount: €21,000Grant period: 1 year

University of Cambridge (UK) “Beliefs about the Expression and Regulation of Emotion, and Knowledge about Mental Health in the Chinese Cultural Context: Their Implications on Taiwanese Mothers’ Attitudes in Seeking Professional Psychological Help” Grant amount: €15,000 Grant period: 1 year

Loughborough University (UK)“The Cultural Public Sphere under the Waves of Neoliberal Reform: Rethinking Communication and Cultural Policies in Taiwan” Grant amount: €15,000 Grant period: 1 year

●Wait List

Social Sciences

1. Chia-yuan Huang (#2 in the Social Sciences Category)

University of London (UK)“Global Mobility of Talents: Taiwanese Highly Skilled Migrant Workers to Shanghai and Singapore”

H. Special Project Grants

1. Olga Lomova

Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic)“Continuation of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation International Sinological Center at Charles University in Prague, 2018-2020”Grant amount: €225,000Grant period: 3 years

Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (Vietnam) “ASEAN-Taiwan (ROC) Relations in the Context of the Taiwan’s New Southbounce (NSB) Policy and the Role of Vietnam” Grant amount: US$15,000 Grant period: 6 months